Improvement in drying apparatus



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NJET'ERS, PHDTO-LITHOGRAPHER." WASHINGTON, D. C,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OURTISS T. FAIROHILD, OF SALISBURY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN DRYING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent bio- 173,605, dated February 15,1876; application filed January 24, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, OURT1ss T. FAIRGHILD, of Salisbury, in the county of Herkimer and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Drying Cheese-Box Hoops, &e.; and that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same,-reference being had to theaccompanyin g drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, Inakinga part'of this specification.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement in racks for drying. cheese-box hoops and other similar articles; and the invention consists in racks for drying cheesebox rims, constructed of a series of wooden cleats, provided with slots and wedges, whereby the eheese-box hoops or other articles that are being dried are confined between the cleats and prevented from being blown or otherwise disturbed from their position, constructed, combined, and arranged in the manner hereinafter described and shown.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure l is a plan or top View of my invention, and Fig. 2 a cross-section ofsame.

Similar letters of vi-reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

A represents a series of cleats, which are firmly secured at right angles to one or more supporting-rails, B. Each of these strips has formed in it, near their ends and at opposite sides, saw kerfs or slots a, forming tongues I), and they are attached to the supporting rail B so that a space, 0, is left between each of the cleats. The cheese-box hoops, &c., O,

that it is intended to dry are placed perpendicularly, one in each space 0, the lower end of the hoop resting on the ground and the upper end passing into the space 0, when the tongues b formed by the saw kerfs or slots 0!, act .as springs, holding the hoops, 8m, in place, so that they will not be disturbed by the wind or any ordinary accident. When,

from use and exposure, these tongues lose elasticity, wedges d may be inserted into the kerfs a, which will force out the tongues 11 against the hoops which are placed in contact with them.

A series of thesedrying-cleats are preferably arranged in parallel rows, with a railtrack between them, on which a small platform-car may be operated, so that the cheesebox hoops or other articles to be dried can be quickly loaded and unloaded from the cars. The rail-track and car, however, are not essential to the proper working of my dryingracks, since, as is apparent, they may be used with any convenient means of transporting the material to be dried, or'without it, as desired. Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Racks for drying cheese-box hoops, consisting of a series of cleats, with saw-kerfs formed therein, and combined with wedges, substan tially as and for the purpose described.

. GUBTISS T. FAIROHILD. Witnesses:

WATTS T. LooMrs, O. VAN VEGHTEN. 

